History of Horticulture The Art and Science of

GardeningJohn Peter Thompson

& USDA NAL

National Agricultural LibrarySeptember 28th, 2010

The Garden of Eden

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The Ancient Greeks

Aristotle Theophrastos

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The Ancient Romans

Marcus Porcius Cato. The Elder Marcus Terentius VarroPublius Vergilius Maro

L. Junius Moderatus ColumellaAelius Galenus

Gaius Plinius Secundus

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The Hunt for a Cure

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Truth in Pictures

Konrad Von Megenberg, 1309-1374

Leonhart Fuchs, (Fuchsius Leonhardus) 1501-1566

Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566),

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Europe’s Search for New Plants

Elizabeth Blackwell (1707–1758)

A Near Thing – Gardens in Paradise

Boston Jamestown

American Degeneracy

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788)

Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Carl von Linné(23 May 1707 - 10 January 1778

Birth of American Horticulture

Oenothera grandiflora Found in Alabama

by William Bartram in 1775

William PrinceNurserymanNew York

Birth of American Horticulture

Charles Willson Peale

Colonial Gardens; European Reflections

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Bartrams, Nurseries & Gardens

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Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852)

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Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903)

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The Great Divide –Shifting Disciplines

HORTICULTURE

AGRICULTURE

AGRONOMY

ENTYMOLOGY

SYSTEMATICS

HORTICULTURE

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

NURSERY PRODUCTION

NARKETING

BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

GEOLOGY

CLIMATOLOGY

The Gilded Age of Gardening

Plants from ‘round the world

Hosta Thomas Hogg

Stewartia pseudocamellia

Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811 - 1895)

William Edwards (March 15, 1822 – April 4, 1909)

Plants from ‘round the world with a twist

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Fairchild & USDA

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Early 20th Century

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Community to Individual

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Glenn Dale and the National Arboretum

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The American Garden 2010

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Support Conservation of Our Agricultural Heritage

Materials Identified for Conservation Treatment

•Early American Nursery and Seed Trade Catalogs•Early USDA Plant Exploration•Pomona italiana, ossia trattato degli alberi fruttiferi.by Giorgio Gallesio. 1772-1839.•George Cooke Diary (1791-1849) was an antebellum planter in Anne Arundel County, Maryland